Guías
Diez guías escritas para cada juego, desde la primera jugada hasta los hábitos que deciden las partidas ajustadas.
Ajedrez
Reglas completas, un rival que calcula y una lista de jugadas legible.
Principios de apertura en ajedrez que de verdad importanYou do not need to memorise opening theory to get a decent position. Three ideas — centre, development, king safety — will carry y…
8 minHorquillas, clavadas y enfiladas: las tácticas que deciden las partidasNearly every game below master level is settled by a two-move tactic. These are the four patterns worth drilling until you see the…
9 minOcho patrones de mate que conviene reconocer al instanteMate almost always arrives in one of a handful of shapes. Learn the shapes and you stop calculating from scratch every time.…
8 minFinales de ajedrez: las cinco posiciones que todos deberían saberEndgames feel dry until you lose a won game. These five positions cover most of what actually comes up, and none of them takes lon…
9 minCómo dejar de regalar piezasMost lost games are not lost to brilliance. They are given away in one move. Here is a routine that removes the majority of those …
7 minEnroque, captura al paso y coronación, bien explicadosThree rules that confuse more new players than everything else combined — including the exact conditions people usually get wrong.…
7 minSacar partido a jugar contra un motor de ajedrezA computer opponent is a training tool, not just a rival. Used well it fixes weaknesses fast; used badly it teaches you to play sc…
7 minTodas las formas de acabar en tablasHalf points come from five different rules, and knowing them turns lost positions into saves — and stops won positions slipping aw…
7 minLa estructura de peones: el esqueleto de la posiciónPawns are the slowest pieces and the ones that decide where every other piece belongs. Six structures explain most middlegame plan…
8 minUn plan realista de principiante a nivel de clubWhat to work on, in what order, and how much of each — for players who have the rules down and want to stop losing to the same thi…
8 minCómo leer la notación de ajedrez y seguir una partidaAlgebraic notation takes ten minutes to learn and unlocks every chess book, video and database ever made.…
6 minSudoku
Cada puzle se genera al momento, con solución única y pistas que enseñan.
El rastreo: la forma más rápida de empezar cualquier sudokuBefore you write a single pencil mark, scanning will usually fill a third of the grid. Here is how to do it systematically instead…
6 minAnotaciones: cuándo usarlas y cómo mantenerlas limpiasCandidates turn a memory problem into a visible one. Used carelessly they turn a solvable puzzle into a mess.…
6 minParejas, tríos y cuartetos, desnudos y ocultosThe first real technique beyond singles, and the one that unlocks most hard puzzles. The idea is simpler than the names suggest.…
7 minX-wing, pez espada y los patrones más allá de las parejasWhen singles, pairs and locked candidates all run out, these are the next techniques — and the logic is more approachable than the…
7 minSiete errores que arruinan una cuadrícula de sudokuMost failed puzzles are not too hard. They are broken by a small error twenty moves earlier.…
6 minCómo resolver sudokus más rápido sin equivocarteSpeed comes from cutting wasted looking, not from thinking quicker. Six changes that shorten solve times immediately.…
6 min¿Qué hace difícil a un sudoku?It is not the number of clues. Difficulty comes from which techniques are required and where the clues are placed.…
6 minUna rutina de práctica de sudoku que de verdad te mejoraSolving more puzzles is not the same as getting better. Twenty focused minutes a day beats an hour of the same thing repeated.…
6 minResolver sudokus en papel y qué cambiaPaper is slower, harder and better for learning some things. Here is how to adapt, and how to print a grid from this site.…
5 minVariantes de sudoku y cuáles merecen la penaKiller, jigsaw, diagonal, hyper — the popular variants change one rule each, and each change rewards a different kind of thinking.…
6 minGo
Capturas, ko, paso y conteo de área en 9×9, 13×13 o 19×19.
Libertades, atari y captura: la mecánica de una lucha en goEvery fight in go is a race to fill liberties. Counting them turns guesswork into arithmetic.…
6 minDos ojos: cómo viven y mueren los gruposA group with two eyes cannot be captured, ever. Everything else in go is a negotiation about whether a group can get there.…
7 minCómo jugar bien al go en 9×9The small board is not a toy version. It is a complete game with its own strategy, and it is where every technique is easiest to l…
6 minLa regla del ko y cómo funcionan de verdad las luchas de koOne short rule prevents infinite loops and creates the most tactical situation in go.…
6 minBuena forma: por qué algunas formaciones de piedras funcionanShape is efficiency. Strong players do not calculate every move — they play formations that are hard to attack and move on.…
6 minPrincipios de apertura en go: esquinas, lados, centroThe order is not arbitrary. It falls straight out of how many stones each area needs to enclose.…
6 minEscaleras y redes: capturar piedras que intentan escaparTwo techniques for catching escaping stones, and the whole-board check that decides which one to use.…
5 minEl final en go: jugar siempre el punto más grandeGames are lost in the endgame more often than anywhere else, usually by playing a five-point move when a twelve-point move was ava…
6 minPiedras de hándicap y komi: cómo el go se mantiene justoGo has the best handicap system of any board game, and it turns mismatched games into genuinely competitive ones.…
5 minNueve errores que comete casi todo principiante en goRecognising these early skips months of confusion — most of them come from applying instincts borrowed from other games.…
6 minMahjong Solitario
La tortuga de 144 fichas, repartida para que siempre tenga solución.
Estrategia de mahjong solitario: qué pareja retirarEvery board offers several legal moves and most of them are wrong. The difference between clearing and stalling is which pair you …
6 minLa regla de la ficha libre, en detalleAlmost every mahjong solitaire question turns out to be a question about which tiles are free. Here is the rule with all its edge …
5 minCómo evitar quedarte sin jugadasA solvable board can still be killed in twenty moves. These are the specific mistakes that do it.…
5 minEl juego de fichas de mahjong, explicadoThree suits, two honour groups and eight bonus tiles. Knowing what you are looking at makes matching considerably faster.…
5 minDespejar un tablero de mahjong más rápidoSpeed comes from recognising tiles instantly and scanning the board in a fixed order, not from clicking quickly.…
5 minLeer la disposición de la tortugaThe classic shape is not arbitrary. Knowing where its pressure points are tells you what to clear and in what order.…
5 minEl mahjong solitario no es el mahjongThey share a tile set and nothing else. Here is what the real game is, and why the confusion exists.…
5 minCuándo barajar y cuándo deshacerYou get three shuffles and unlimited undos. Choosing between them well is worth several cleared boards.…
4 minCinco errores de mahjong solitario que conviene dejarEach of these feels efficient in the moment and costs you the board twenty moves later.…
4 minJugar al mahjong solitario para desconectarNot every game has to be optimised. Here is how to use the board when the point is the fifteen minutes, not the time on the clock.…
4 minGomoku
Cinco en raya en 15×15, contra un rival que responde a las amenazas.
Treses y cuatros abiertos: la gramática del gomokuEvery gomoku game is a conversation in threats. Learn to name them and the right move usually becomes obvious.…
6 minAperturas de gomoku: las cinco primeras jugadasThe opening is short but it decides whether you spend the game attacking or defending.…
5 minDefender en gomoku sin perder la iniciativaBlocking is necessary, but pure blocking loses. The skill is choosing blocks that also build something.…
5 minSecuencias forzadas: así se ganan de verdad las partidasAbove beginner level nobody wins by accident. Wins come from sequences of forcing moves that end in a threat that cannot be answer…
6 minCómo ganar al ordenador en gomokuThe opponent here blocks threats and searches ahead. Here is what each level actually does and how to play against it.…
5 minSeis errores de gomoku que hacen perder partidasMost losses trace back to one of a handful of habits, and all of them are easy to break once named.…
5 minGomoku, renju y el problema de la primera jugadaFree-style gomoku is a proven win for Black. The rule variants that exist are all attempts to fix that.…
5 minCómo leer un tablero de gomoku con rapidezStrong players are not calculating faster. They are scanning the board in a way that makes the important points obvious.…
5 minJugar al gomoku con otra personaTwo-player mode turns the board into a shared one. Here is how to make the games even, and how to teach someone in five minutes.…
4 minDe dónde viene el gomokuA game played with go equipment for centuries, formalised in Japan, solved by computer, and still played competitively worldwide.…
5 minDamas
Capturas obligatorias, cadenas de saltos y damas, como debe ser.
La captura obligatoria y cómo aprovecharlaForcing your opponent's hand is the core of checkers tactics. Once you see it, the game changes completely.…
6 minLas damas coronadas y cómo se ganan los finalesA king is worth roughly two ordinary pieces. Getting the first one usually decides the game.…
6 minAperturas en damas: qué hacer en las diez primeras jugadasYou do not need opening books. Four ideas cover the whole opening and they follow from how the pieces move.…
5 minAtrapar: ganar sin comer piezasYou win checkers when your opponent cannot move, not only when they run out of pieces. That second condition is a whole strategy.…
5 minSeis errores de damas que cuestan partidasAlmost all of them come from forgetting that captures are compulsory in both directions.…
5 minJugar contra el ordenador en damasThe opponent here searches ahead with a minimax and never misses a compulsory capture. Here is how to make it a useful training pa…
5 minVariantes de damas en el mundoEnglish draughts is one of many. The differences in board size and capture rules change the game substantially.…
5 minJugar a las damas con otra personaTwo-player mode, teaching a beginner, and how to handle a skill gap without either player being bored.…
4 minDe dónde vienen las damasA five-thousand-year lineage, a nineteenth-century tournament culture, and the game that broke a generation of computer scientists…
5 minCómo mejorar en las damasThe skill ladder is short and well defined. Here is what to learn, in what order, and how to know when to move on.…
5 min2048
Desliza, combina y mantén la ficha grande en la esquina.
La estrategia de la esquina, bien explicadaEveryone says keep the big tile in the corner. Here is why it works and what the rule actually requires you to do.…
6 minEl patrón serpiente: cómo se construyen las grandes puntuacionesCorner strategy gets you to 2048. The snake gets you to 4096 and beyond, by making every tile part of one long chain.…
6 minCinco errores que terminan pronto una partida de 2048The board usually dies for one of a small number of reasons, and four of them are entirely within your control.…
5 minMás allá de 2048The first 2048 tile is a technique problem. The second one, and 4096, are management problems.…
5 minCómo funciona la puntuación en 2048Your score is determined entirely by which merges you make, which means it is almost completely predictable from your highest tile…
4 minLas matemáticas detrás del 2048Powers of two, a fixed spawn probability, and a board that shrinks as you succeed. A short look at why the game is shaped the way …
5 minJugar rápido frente a jugar con cuidado en 2048There is a real trade-off, and it changes as the board fills. Knowing when to switch modes is worth a whole tier of score.…
4 minJugar al 2048 en el móvilSwipe accuracy, one-handed play, and the settings that reduce mis-presses on a small screen.…
4 minVariantes de 2048 que merece la pena conocerThe original spawned hundreds of imitations. A few of them change the game in genuinely interesting ways.…
4 minCómo mejorar de forma constante en 2048Scores vary a lot game to game, which makes progress hard to see. Here is how to measure it and what to work on.…
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